Antoine De Saint Exupéry Quotes From ‘The Little Prince’
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You’re beautiful, but you’re empty. No one could die for you.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Only the children know what they are looking for.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
His look was very serious, like someone lost far away.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Little golden objects that set lazy men to idle dreaming.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of freshwater…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
‘Ephemeral’ means ‘which is in danger of speedy disappearance.’
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“You’re not a man, you’re a mushroom!
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
‘What makes the desert beautiful,’ said the little prince, ‘is that somewhere it hides a well…’
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Words are the source of misunderstandings.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Happiness Quotes by Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him… The land of tears is so mysterious.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Straight ahead you can’t go very far.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
‘It’s a question of discipline,’ the little prince told me later on. ‘When you’ve finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet.’
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
‘My life is very monotonous,’ the fox said. ‘I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.’
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Happiness doesn’t lie in the objects we gather around us. To find it, all we need to do is open our eyes.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The only things you learn are the things you tame
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love Quotes By Antoine De Saint Exupéry
I was too young to know how to love her.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Of course I love you. It is my fault that you have not known it all the while.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You know… my flower… I’m responsible for her. And she’s so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If you come at four in the afternoon, I’ll begin to be happy by three.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
More Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says ‘I was beaten’, he does not say ‘My men were beaten.’
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The one thing that matters is the effort.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become – to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You – you alone will have the stars as no one else has them…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You know-one loves the sunset, when one is so sad…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You’ll have stars that can laugh!
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
‘I wonder,’ he said, ‘whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again…’
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
